A PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION PLATE WITH THE PORTRAITS OF WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AND HIS RUNNING MATE, JAMES S. SHERMAN, SURROUNDED BY IMAGES OF PREVIOUS REPUBLICAN NOMINEES,
DATED 1909
The plate is a Chromo-lithograph on metal and is an inauguration plate for 1908. The Smithsonian Institute has an example in poorer condition.
Below the large central portrait is a panel that reads:
Inauguration
March 4 1909
President
William Howard Taft
Vice President
James Schoolcraft Sherman
At the bottom center of the rim between the portraits of Republican candidates is another panel that reads:
GRAND OLD PARTY
1856-1908
STANDARD BEARERS